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Thunderbolts* review – the best Marvel film in a while

by Fatima Sheriff

There’s a lot of super­fi­cial fun to be had with this super­hero romp, which hasn’t been the case in the MCU for a long while.

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We Live in Time review – every generation gets the cancer romance it deserves

by Mark Asch

Andrew Garfield and Flo­rence Pugh star as a cou­ple whose life is dis­rupt­ed by a dev­as­tat­ing can­cer diag­no­sis in John Crow­ley’s roman­tic weepie.

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A Good Person

by Charles Bramesco

Auteur Zach Braff puts then-girl­friend Flo­rence Pugh through it in the opi­oid-addic­tion drama.

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The Wonder

by Lillian Crawford

Sebastián Lelio’s 19th-cen­tu­ry dra­ma dwells in the goth­ic-bucol­ic as a nurse watch­es over a girl who has sur­vived months with­out food.

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Don’t Worry Darling

by Hannah Strong

Olivia Wilde’s sopho­more fea­ture sees Flo­rence Pugh and Har­ry Styles in a 1950s day­dream where every­thing isn’t quite what it seems.

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Black Widow

by Fatima Sheriff

Scar­lett Johansson’s super assas­sin final­ly gets a solo run out in this enjoy­able adven­ture about messed up families.

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Little Women

by David Jenkins

Gre­ta Ger­wig deliv­ers one of the great mod­ern lit­er­ary adap­ta­tions with her sec­ond fea­ture as writer/​director.

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Midsommar

by Hannah Strong

Flo­rence Pugh runs afoul of a Swedish cult in direc­tor Ari Aster’s tooth­less fol­low-up to Hereditary.

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Fighting with My Family

by Greg Evans

Flo­rence Pugh plays an aspir­ing WWE wrestler in Stephen Merchant’s enter­tain­ing sports drama.

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Outlaw King

by Gus Edgar-Chan

Chris Pine is ill-cast as Robert the Bruce in this dis­as­trous his­tor­i­cal epic from writer/​director David Mackenzie.

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Lady Macbeth

by Elena Lazic

A stun­ning lead turn from Flo­rence Pugh anchors this com­plex and com­pelling peri­od drama.

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The Falling

by David Jenkins

Car­ol Mor­ley fol­lows up the mes­meris­ing Dreams of a Life with a tedious peri­od dra­ma set in an all-girls school.

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